HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 1932-
THE WORST IS MR. PEPYS IN HONG na Nows from the North comen
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M.O.H'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC
KONG.
36th Christmas Day-This day I had booz minded po lic late, and so I do war, the Bay that he should not awaken ing. But on over it wa cinar daylight, I am roused by my LATEST ADVICE: DON'T EAT children who are much relieved to
ICE CREAM.
find that Father Christmas hns found his way hither and they are not disappointed of their gifts. Yeti
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that the Japaneso: do insist they do not desire to annexe Manchiria but do irioist that banditry shall atop. Which da sem a fair enough proposul and 1 trust a peaceful issue may come. The diphtheria do run its course and I learn that many bally and dances be postponed, talking with a chyrurgeon this day. which is but coinmon sense. But in do learn that kissing, do be the
most dangerous thing possible for infectious, which bean to me to be a mighty bard matter at this festive
The consumption of ice eronin was whether it is fitting to encourage senson, and the more so ng I have!
added to the list of things which must remain tabu for the duration of the diphtheria epidemic, by Dr.
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Interview with n Daily Press repre sentative yesterday evening.
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Existing stocks of ice cream owned by the firm to which the origin of the outbreak was traced are being destroyed," said Dr. Pope,nevertheless it is but a commonsense precaution to refrain hom eating any ice-cream at all for the present."
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Only Bix New Cases, Six cases only of diphtheria were notified yesterday ap to five o'clock
the afternoon, four of which were from Hong Kong, one from Kowloon, and one from the har- hour, the latter case being that of a naval officer froin one of the war. shipa in port.
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are not, the epidemic is rapidly on the decline the worst is over, sad although the usual precautions should be observed, a return to normal may not unreasonably be expected in the near future,
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this superstition or myth too far I
now not. So I do rouse my wife been as charges to buy a handsome i poor wretch, and to the children bough of mistletoe--cost mẸ BÍX
dailers. where the stockings are emptied. And betimes I break my fast 30th. This day very busy at busy ordering the dressing of our year's end. Reading in the news Christmas-faro, to which at one of sheets your that Mr. B. W Gulpin the clock, or it may be later, we do who was Captain of the Poseidon sib down with Sir R. Harpenden when she was lost, do retire from and his Lady, and three gossips, His Majesty's Navy of his own and all very worry. And therefter dusire, whereby I do believe that to our divers occupations, and I and one of our most abin offears in the Mr. R. Beach do walk to High West submarine service is lost to the Gap and thened to the summit. for King's service, and I am heartily the better ordering of our stomach, sorry for it. In dhanghai the And so home the better for it, for conch strike be ended and the Com I have long been vowed to give no pany wins, for which I am most ocension to my liver through sleep- thankful. The epidemick no worse ing upon a Christmas afternoon, and may be somewhat casior lator This svening to dine with friends, we do hops. the Flageolette, which I think not garden to gather, & nosegay for my
most merry rout, and I playing of
alat-Up betimes and to my to have done these four years since wife, but find only four blooms of did dine in one of His Majesty's sweet pens, which be too few for frigates and; as how, none other of a Yass, so I do use them for the the company do pine at all for the adorning of my button hole, and chamber musick. Yet, God forgive the pumbling of my fellow garden- me. I do believe my mind do so run or whose sweet peas are not yet back that I do may be sue myself blossoming for which may I be for ones more on board. Or so my wife given. Yet I do think that but for de say, but I trust that she, poor the cold I had had a many more. wretch, do make over much of it. To the office where I sit late.order- So home late after a moat merrying of my accounts, and so home evening."
and to dine with Sir R. Harpenden, though my wife be hardly recover ad of a rheum in the head that do afflict her sorely. A merry evening seeing in the New Year and so fume and I fall to writing in may diary,
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28th-This morning lav late upon information from the Roy that it did rain, although it had been most fine weather upon my rotiring. And 80 to airep again and later did an- quire of the Criquette by messenger, and I be told that there be none 'till muncheon be done. And so yet again I do fall asleep and so until it he noon. And then, looking from my window, I do perceive that the So far the only European fatality King be begun. So I trim myself and to the Club around where I do has been that of a German child to the Army team, which doth which died on Christmas Day; the most soundly trounce the Club at other patients in hospital, and clse-Criguttte. So home and to bod be
times. where are progressing favourably, 27th, Lord's Day. This day up To the list of social functions betimes and to the Queen's House where I do soc a most admirable already cancelled must be added the Comedy. "The Man in Possen New Year's Camival Dance - gion," at which I do laugh most ranged by the Kowloon Deck Re-immoderately. And indeed it hath much salt. Then bome to my nun- "creation Club. Also a number of
-cheon, and after chinping of my schools are postponing their open-sweet peas in the garden; but I am ing dute after the Christmas holi astounde, they dp proceed so slowly, and I perceive it' do be days for a week.
from lack of the sun's rays, But for this I can do nothing, for I DAIRY FARM PRECAUTIONS.no_remove the mountains, au
«OUT MILK IS SAFE."
Interviewed by our representative Mr. A. Stevenson, the Manager of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd., said that every accessary precaution was heing taken to make Dairy Farm
milk safe for use, as delivered,
is the Government habit here, save perhaps at Morrison Hill, where the hill do be too harde for them. Writing later in my diary and so early to bed.
4!, 28th-Up pretty betimes and to the office where I am full of busi
eas nt the year's end, and so have Do time even for my morning draught, which has not happened to me these many days. At nuncheon at the Criquette Club where the Navy do Criquette. And with sorrow I do play the Army at
perecive that the Navy has no bowl. ing at all, yet it is with the greatest
We have asked the Medical Authorities to what, temperáture the milk should be raised under the
possible delight that I do watch pasteurising process, and to make the clann striking of Mr. A. Hamil doubly earthin, we are raising the ton and Captain R. Moir who do. temperature la ten: degrees above gather the one a hundred and four. teen, and the other one hundred and that point. All our milk is being fifty notches. And from this violent pasteurised as it comes off the fact on I do trust they will come to cooler at the Dairy Farm, and it is through overtasing of the system no harm nor abatement of strength then hotted ready for delivery. Eat. Christninstide. Reading in the There is no ponsible chance of con- news sheets I see martial law is de tamination. The milk will have it. For it hath ever proved a most clared in Swatow and, am glad, of lightly evoked taste, but we conturbulent and bolshevistique place, sider that at this time unfety in the and if the fear of bandits of Com Srst consideration, The Medical munists do make their students to walk more meek and orderly it shall Officers have visited the Farm and he well. But more serious in the have expressed their satisfaction news of the plague which has fallen with what we are doing and with upon the city, which the cbyrur- geone do style diphtheria, being, as the whole position there.
I understand it, an affection of the All our animals and all our staff throat and air passages, and in the handling the milk, or in any way past, most deadly. But now, connected with its production and advance in knowledge do enable the distribution have been medically chyrurgeons to mister it, so be and bacteriologically examined, and that the patiens do call them in at we can assure the public, that the once. Yet am I grieved at the animals are healthy and no one new darmist news that is shown in the nployed by us is under suspicion.rublique news sheets. For I know. "We en confidently way that our well that more men have taken a milk is sate for use as delivered." sickness from panic fear than from repeated Mr. Stevenson.
COMMON SENSE. AND INDIGESTION.
chance infection.
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29th-Up batimes un reading in the news-shicote I do find must ad.. infrable detailed information, and my wife and I do order our house- hold as the chyrurgeons do advice. And under. Providanes this shall Any docker will tell you thing al-Auffice, though I do hold ther fate most all digestive trouble is due to has much to do herewith, and that excoes stomach acid, which farments the fainted-hearted are the mora contrnet the plague! food, generates painful gases, and likely to attacks the delicate stomach lining, Rending also of the meeting of the Obviously, then, to get iramedia'c Society which dath protect Child- relief, you need only ocunteract this tenu Wherent His Excellency, the stomach acidity; and for this pur- Governor, do make the most plain pose there is nothing to equal and sensible speech that over I littleBiurated Magnesia tak r heard and I am in doubt if I do aftor meals or when discomfort in my full share towards its aid. For felt, Bisurate Magnesia, which so strange be human nature, there can be obtained from any chemist, many do sorrow for the hard- speedily, banishes indigestion by ship of a dog whom the hardship neutralising excess acid, stopping of a child do leave unmoved. This fermentation, and scothing and day I do take my numeboon at the healing the inflamed stomach lining Criquette Club, where I discover Doctori and hospitals use and re- the Navy in the most parlous commend this commonsaose remedy Echance against" this. :Artay, "And because, by acting directly upon t soon their last strikers be over... cause of the trouble, it always come and the Army do win by na gives instant relief.
innings and woll-nigh three hundred.
Soends this year, with much trouble both in the North in India and as bome. All the world trou- bled, and many in sore, distress which may God amend in the New Your. In Hong Kong, all pretty well on the whole though money in scarce and trade not over abundant. Yor de. I see no lack of new cars upon the streat and I do reflect that these twenty years I have never yet! heard a merchant admit to a pros- perous season-nor indeed do 1.so do myself. But I trual things may mend, and it may be there be many other places in worse plight, then this Colony. And so, forgiving my encanics as I trust they do forgive me, to bed.
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